Agile Overview
Challenges in Traditional Software Development Mothodologies The Traditional software development model follows a sequential life cycle called "the waterfall". The Waterfall model has different distinct phases like Requirements, Analysis, Design, Codi, g, Testing and maintenance. In this sequential flow, the duration of a project is very long ranging from few months to few years. The end user is not able to test the product till the end of the project and at the time of user acceptance testing the end user finds that the product is not delivering the functionality what he was expecting. There is a famous Swing Cartoon which shows comically what the customer is expecting and finally what the development team delivers. 1. High costs and wasted budgets Traditional methods can be quite costly and often 65% of the budgets spent on developing these methods is wasted on developing features that may not be used or required by the cu...